i believe in raising taxes. that's my sin. i believe in balancing the budget both by cutting spending and by raising taxes on the very rich by a lot since they can afford it and by the ordinary rich by a good bit. on the upper middle class by somewhat. we are not responsible conservatives if we leave a defaulted america to our descendents. and the budget cannot be balanced by small cuts in discretionary spending but in a much bigger sense i am a conservative because i am afraid of big government. the 20th century was by far the bloodiest century that we know of in human history. the murder of tens of millions by the nazis and the communists in europe and asia were carried out by governments claimed they were doing good things for the only people who counted. the pure aryans or the prol tear yat are the inner circles of dictatorship. it was carried out by big roman imperial government. where government is big by definition the individual is small. that means his or her life counts for little or nothing. for me as a conservative